ALAIN C. ENTHOVEN

is the Marriner S. Eccles Professor of Public and Private Management in the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University.  He holds degrees in Economics from Stanford, Oxford and MIT. He has been an Economist with the RAND Corporation, Assistant Secretary of Defense, and President of Litton Medical Products.  In 1963, he received the President's Award for Distinguished Federal Civilian Service from John F. Kennedy.  In 1977, while serving as a consultant to DHHS Secretary Califano and the Carter Administration, he designed and proposed Consumer Choice Health Plan, a plan for universal health insurance based on managed competition in the private sector.  He is a member of the Institute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences and a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.  He is a consultant to Kaiser Permanente, the former Chairman of the Health Benefits Advisory Council for CalPERS, and former Chairman of Stanford's University Committee on Faculty/Staff Benefits.  He has been a director of the Jackson Hole Group and PCS.  He is now a director of Caresoft Inc.  He was the 1994 winner of the Baxter Prize for Health Services Research and the 1995 Board of Directors Award, Healthcare Financial Management Association.  In 1997, he was appointed Chairman of the California Managed Health Care Improvement Task Force by Governor Pete Wilson.   In 1998-99, he was the Rock Carling Fellow of the Nuffield Trust of London and also Visiting Professor at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.  His latest book: In Pursuit of an Improving National Health Service published by the Nuffield Trust in November 1999.  He is now serving on the Institute of Medicine's Committee on the National Quality Report Card.

  June 2000